Is there any way for me to add a field that visually displays a remotely hosted image?
Specifically: I am creating a Bookmark database so I can share resources with my team. I know I could use the API to populate fields with data I pull in from APIs about a url but what if I want to display a thumbnail for these links but don’t want to upload that images to baserow and, instead, just link to the image created by the remote URL to SCREENSHOT THUMBNAIL API?
Advantages of this:
- Keep the baserow database smaller and minimize all the read-write
- Always keep getting the latest screenshot data from the remote API without read-write to baserow
- Open possibility for, possibly, many different use cases of people wanting to display remote data … I also have a font database where I have to upload a screenshot of what the font looks like and it results in some inconsistency of output and it would be better if these images were created from the GoogleFonts API in the same way …
I have played with Rowy but gave up quickly because it just seemed too complicated and I didn’t like being locked into Google/Firebase and really prefer the simplicity and design of Baserow. I can see the power of the tools ability to integrate with many NPM packages, however.
Continued thanks for all the hard work to the Baserow squad on a beautiful product.